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Catherine Helen Berndt 1918-1994
Obituary - appreciation of the life and work of Catherine Helen Berndt.
Obituary
Tribute to anthropologist Catherine Berndt.
A World that was
This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over half a century ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It recreates the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia. In 1939 Albert Karloan, a Yaraldi man, urged a young ethnologist, Ronald Berndt, to set up camp at Murray Bridge and to record the story of his people. Karloan and Pinkie Mack, a Yaraldi woman, possessed through personal experience, not merely through hearsay, an all but complete knowledge of traditional life. They were virtually the last custodians of that...
The World of the First Australians
Includes new foreword, added references; social organisation, economic life, relationship with land, life cycle, religious beliefs, law and order, art death, politics, current developments in Aboriginal studies, affairs.
The World of the First Australians
Commentaries added to chapters of first edition and new final chapter on current scene; for detailed annotation see 1964 edition.
Going it Alone?
Examines the relationship between the government policies of 'self-management' and the real experience in Aboriginal communities. Takes Aboriginal autonomy as its central theme. Includes biographical sketch & selected bibliography of anthropologists, the Berndts.
Through the Kunai Grass
This exhibition showcases the work of Ronald and Catherine Berndt while they travelled to Papua New Guinea in 1951. Ronald Berndt was the Foundation Professor of Anthropology, arriving at the University in 1957; he was appointed Professor on the establishment of the Department in 1963, the same year in which he and his wife Catherine founded the international journal of Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, Anthropological Forum. The Berndts were among the first white outsiders to enter the high mountain valleys of the Eastern Highlands region. The dense forest, which impeded their ten-day trek, was broken by broad swathes of two metre high kunai grass across the Highland valleys, where villages such as Kainantu were located. These portraits of local people were taken on a small Leica camera, using precious Kodachrome I film, unobtainable in Australia in the immediate post-War era, but supplied to the Berndts by Margaret Mead at the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
End of an Era
Retrospective analysis of survey of Aboriginal labour on cattle stations, Army Aboriginal Settlements, 1944-46; stations, all owned by Australian Investment Agency (Vesteys), include Wave Hill, Waterloo, Limbunya, Birrundudu, Gordon Downs, Manbulloo, Willeroo; Army Settlements include Katherine Civil Settlement, Manbulloo Army settlement; also Daly River region; inadequacy of diet, starvation; inadequate supplies of drinking, washing water, shelter, educational, medical facilities; infant mortality, birth rate; sexual relations, white men, Aboriginal women; labour recruitment, remuneration; costs to stations for food, clothing, sundries supplied to Aborigines; conduct of white staff, Aboriginal attitudes; responses to report, recommendations.
